No blocking.

Or is it just me.

D2 has lost its purpose to me.

Same. My gear's going on Ebay, and good riddance.

agreed. fuck 1.10 ... fuck blizzard. fuck bnet.

Heh, I wonder if they realize how much they jacked up the game. They added some items and stuff, but it's no good when you can't MF the bosses and/or kill half the monsters in Hell with ANY MF on... This is an odd topic for the PvP section. I wonder if we can get a move over to Diablo II General Chat?

I haven't actually tried 1.10 yet..
But does Blocking not work for PvP only? Or does it not work even for PvM?

Maybe it is a bug, and Blizzard will fix it sometime in the...future.

Blocking DOES work, this is taken from patch info word-for-word:

"Block lock' has been eliminated. When a player character has just
blocked an attack, the player cannot block again for a short period of
time, the length of which increases as Blocking speed increases."

They just made it suck. I would almost recommend shieldless for PvP now, BUT, no point considering they killed Life Leech in PvP. My pally leeched *4* life from my friend with 30% LL and 1k+ damage. No mana was leeched either.

PvP as ANYONE knows it is now shot. Your builds no longer work, and no real way of levelling fast enuff to re-tool.

But how much damage did you deal to your friend? I'm just curious, because Blizzard mentioned how they would change it to a 1/10 penalty in PvP...

Or is it mentioned in the patch.txt?

Well... Min dmg was roughly 1k, so 1/10 of that would be 100, if I did min. I did this multiple times, they all came back with roughly same results. 100 dmg, he had full 50% DR, that would drop it to 50. 30% of 50 would still be 15 life, not 4. Max dmg was roughly 3k. So, I'm not sure how they jacked it up, but they did somehow. Pally doesn't use poison or anything like that either. All phys damage.

I think it makes d2 boring, my thought is they want everyone to quit diabloII buy wc3/ WoW when it comes out, and get off the server so they don't have to spend so much money maintaining it for a game they don't sell products for anymore (im atleast guessing not many people buy d2 anymore..)

Damn. That sucks. I was hoping to get back into d2 with the release of this patch. If it's half as bad as you guys say it is then I don't think im going to play.

It's not that bad.... people complain about everything. Like they always wish dupe to come out, then all of sudden, it come out... and they talk much trash about it. It's fun, you should try to make fire ball sorc. In max I believe they can do 5000 damage per hit.

The main problem with the patch in my opinion is that they're trying to force you back to the way it was in the beginning. They reversed the evolution of the game. Most people's path in Diablo was:
1.) Playing game normally.
2.) Dueling.
3.) Magic-Finding.
4.) A combination of 2&3 to further improve your characters.

The patch basically flipped our "Diablo-Knowledge" inside-out. Most of the basics have been changed. The people playing will pretty much follow the same evolutionary path, the good thing is, we get to actually play somewhat intellectually with the more difficult monsters. Downside is, it's definitely not newbie friendly.

The patch is good in some ways, and bad in others. I'm still actually playing at this time, I'm willing to give it a bit more time to tell whether I will retire from D2 or not.

Blocking isnt bad... They just made it so you can block everything from a ww unless you got a very high block rate !

In pvp i can bing mostly anyone hp in hell to 1 in less then 10 sec after my attack. Plague jav = 12k-13k poison dmg over 12 sec ~.

If someone suck the problem is 10 inch in front of their screen.
The game was never meant so ppl would be god in hell. If you guyz cant stand it being difficult go back to tetris.

i agree

and PvP without leeching is nice aswell, now the player with the better char wins, not the one with more leech % :P

No leeching in duel ?
On that area i dont think it s good... My plague jav do over 12k dmg and poison over 16k... It s kinda hard even after the pvp dmg reduce and high resist to have more then 1 hp left if you aint a barb lol.

Wow that's leet

Well, PvP was always trying to find the ideal balance between damage, Life Leech, and various other factors. That just screws over pallys. Now whoever has the most hit points vs. damage wins. It removes elements from dueling. The only classes that really benefit from this are sorcs and necros, as they don't need life leech. With no mana leech, zons are on the slide down and barbs are now the most useless PvP class. The elemental druid would pwn a barb now...

i agree and PvP without leeching is nice aswell, now the player with the better char wins, not the one with more leech % :P

There is leeching in duel.

At the start there was not.

Since 1.10 is out they didnt change anything else i would of downloaded a patch.